Bibliograph

Race music, black cultures from bebop to hip-hop, Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr

Type

Label

Race music, black cultures from bebop to hip-hop, Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-258) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Race music

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

49679500

Responsibility statement

Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr

Series statement

Music of the African diaspora, 7

Sub title

black cultures from bebop to hip-hop

Summary

Traces the history of African-American music from bebop to hip-hop, discussing how the African-American experience has often been chronicled through various forms of music

Table Of Contents

Daddy's second line : toward a cultural poetics of race music -- Disciplining Black music : on history, memory, and contemporary theories -- "It's just the blues" : race, entertainment, and the blues muse -- "It just stays with me all of the time" : collective memory, community theater, and the ethnographic truth -- "We called ourselves modern" : race music and the politics and practice of Afro-modernism at midcentury -- "Goin' to Chicago" : memories, histories, and a little bit of soul -- Scoring a Black nation : music, film, and identity in the age of hip-hop -- "Santa Claus ain't got nothing on this!" : hip-hop hybridity and the Black church muse -- Epilogue : "Do you want it on your black-eyed peas?"

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